Decorative part for vehicle and method for manufacturing same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11634089-B2
Application number	US-202217578789-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 19, 2022
Priority date	Oct 21, 2016
Publication date	Apr 25, 2023
Grant date	Apr 25, 2023

Abstract

An emblem (30) (vehicle decorative part) includes a decorative main body (31) and a heater (55). The decorative main body (31) is configured to be attached to a vehicle at a front side in a transmission direction of millimeter waves from a millimeter wave radar to decorate the vehicle and has a millimeter wave transparency. The heater (55) has a heating element (57) that emits heat when energized. At least a part of the heating element (57) is located in a irradiation region (Z1) of the millimeter waves in the heater (55). As a millimeter wave attenuation reducing configuration that reduces attenuation of the millimeter waves passing through the heater (55), the heating element (57) is incorporated in the heater (55) in a condition where an area proportion of an area of a section of the heating element (57) that occupies the irradiation region (Z1) to an area of the irradiation region (Z1) is set such that an attenuation amount of the millimeter waves is less than or equal to a permissible value.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for manufacturing a vehicle decorative part, wherein the vehicle decorative part includes
a decorative main body that is configured to be attached to a vehicle at a front side in a transmission direction of millimeter waves from a millimeter wave radar to decorate the vehicle and has a millimeter wave transparency, and
a sheet-shaped heater having a heating element that emits heat when energized, the decorative main body includes
a transparent member, which is made of a plastic, and
a base, which is made of a plastic and located at a rear side in the transmission direction of the transparent member, and
the base is divided into a front base and a rear base, which is located at a rear side in the transmission direction of the front base,
the method comprising, after the transparent member and the front base are formed sequentially, forming the rear base by insert molding using, as an insert, an intermediate molded part in which a main portion of the heater including the heating element is located at a rear side in the transmission direction of the front base,
wherein
the front base includes a general section and a protrusion that protrudes frontward in the transmission direction relative to the general section,
the insert molding is performed in a state where the heater includes a through section that extends through the heater in the transmission direction at a position separated at least from the heating element, and
the insert molding is performed such that the through section of the heater communicates with a depression formed in a rear surface in the transmission direction of the front base at a position behind the protrusion.

Assignees

• Toyoda Gosei Kk

Inventors

• Okumura Koji
• Maeda Hideto

Classifications

• B60R13/005 Primary

  Manufacturers' emblems, name plates, bonnet ornaments, mascots or the like; Mounting means therefor · CPC title

• H01Q1/422

  comprising two or more layers of dielectric material (H01Q1/425 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G01S13/931

  of land vehicles · CPC title

• H01Q1/44

  using equipment having another main function to serve additionally as an antenna {, e.g. means for giving an antenna an aesthetic aspect}(H01Q1/27 - H01Q1/34 take precedence) · CPC title

• B60S1/66

  for cleaning vehicle exterior · CPC title